{"product_id":"the-hockey-detective-a-brent-burns-novel-9798903842216","title":"The Hockey Detective: A Brent Burns Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFormer NHL forward Brent Burns built his career on discipline, balance, and absorbing impact. Now a Miami Beach detective, he's traded the roar of arenas for the quiet pressure of criminal investigations-where mistakes don't cost goals. They cost lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen financial analyst Lawrence Halden is murdered, Burns uncovers a system where power operates through implication and violence moves without direct orders. A volatile fixer enforces silence. A respected public official shapes the narrative. And someone was asking questions before Halden's body was even cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs federal pressure tightens and the investigation explodes into public view, Burns must protect his family while navigating a network built to protect itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a world where expectation is more dangerous than instruction, justice demands discipline-and endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hockey Detective is the first novel in the Brent Burns series, a tightly structured procedural thriller about accountability, institutional power, and the cost of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Total Business and Marketing Solutions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798903842216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 496\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.11d","brand":"Richard J. Butler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52679560888501,"sku":"9798903842216","price":23.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hockey-detective-a-brent-burns-novel-9798903842216","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}